Eating at Home
Three Things you all always see at mealtime in a Khmer home.
Rice: lots of it piled high on your plate if your host / hostess has their way. If there is no rice at a meal, then it’s like they have never eaten their meal.
Soup: it won’t have another name to add specificity to the contents thereof. It could be clear, it could be cloudy. It will have leafy greens in it of some form (may be morning glory or something of that nature). Each of these will have a specific and pleasant taste of its own. 98% of the time you’ll see chunks of a ‘fish’ floating in it. Enough said.
Fish: Ponds, lakes, or farms give a plethora of fish. Fish can be dried, fried, boiled, porridge, or pasted. So many types of fish westerners would think of as trash fish or maybe an invasive species. Each variety has its own special appeal.
Long term being here and eating locally, one has to adjust and adapt out of respect to those sharing their food with you. It has always been good, just an adaptation of its own.
Rice has a good flavor here.
The photos below:
The fish is a small snakehead according to Mr. G.
The rice in the dish is a single serving if you desire.
The meal was eaten on the floor of a home on a mat with everyone in a circle. It was Christmas day and we were in Siem Reap. I guess you could say that this was our Christmas meal. It was very delicious. 
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